Mud Skyscrapers of Desert Built Long before Log Cabin (Jun, 1936)
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Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1936
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Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1936
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Mud Skyscrapers of Desert Built Long before Log Cabin
Mud skyscrapers that were hundreds of years old when log cabins began to dot the American wilderness still stand in the ancient city of Shibam in southern Arabia. The modern steel skyscraper is only fifty years old. Shibam was a thriving city of tall buildings in the time of the Queen of Sheba, and still is a busy desert metropolis today. So constructed as to withstand the raids of hostile Arab tribesmen, with windows high above the ground, the Shibam skyscrapers were of mud mixed with straw and maize, dried and hardened by the desert sun.
And it’s all still there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibam
Comment by Torgo — August 2, 2008 @ 4:24 pm